(HI)STORY TELLING WITH WALTER BENJAMIN
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(HI)STORY - TELLING WITH WALTER BENJAMIN Photo: Armenian Ruins, Diyarbakir, 2007 HISTORY, MEMORY, & SILENCE This senior/graduate seminar is an exploration in the anthropological approaches to the study of history, memory, and silence: the silences of the empty archives, the ruptured oral historical accounts, and the fragments of debris and ruins. Anchored on Benjamin’s concept of history we ask: How do we trace and represent the past in the aftermath of violence and destruction? What is the role of historians and anthropologists as storytellers who are perpetually struggling with the politics of representation? PROF. HAKEM AL-RUSTOM WINTER 2018 — TUESDAYS 1-4PM HISTORY 430/594 & ANTHRCUL 430
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(HI)STORY-TELLING WITH
WALTER BENJAMIN
Photo: Armenian Ruins, Diyarbakir, 2007
H I S T O R Y , M E M O R Y , & S I L E N C E
This senior/graduate seminar is an exploration in the anthropological approaches to the study of history, memory, and silence: the silences of the empty archives, the ruptured oral historical accounts, and the fragments of debris and ruins. Anchored on Benjamin’s concept of history we ask: How do we trace and represent the past in the aftermath of violence and destruction? What is the role of historians and anthropologists as storytellers who are perpetually struggling with the politics of representation?
PROF. HAKEM AL-RUSTOM WINTER 2018 — TUESDAYS 1-4PM
HISTORY 430/594 & ANTHRCUL 430
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